{"id":192148,"date":"2009-05-05T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/05\/ummmm-its-a-fracking-joke\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T00:38:00","slug":"ummmm-its-a-fracking-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/05\/ummmm-its-a-fracking-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Ummmm&#8230;.It&#8217;s a Fracking Joke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/10\/magazine\/10wwln-q4-t.html?ref=magazine\">interview in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times Magazine<\/span><\/a>, Arlen Specter is quoted as saying that he supports Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full context:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Q: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">With your departure from the Republican Party, there are no more Jewish Republicans in the Senate. Do you care about that? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I sure do. There\u2019s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Q: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Which seems about as likely at this point as Jerry Seinfeld\u2019s joining the Senate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A:<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Well, it was about as likely as my becoming a Democrat.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a joke&#8230;.It&#8217;s not a good one, but it&#8217;s a joke.<\/p>\n<p>As a comedian, well, he&#8217;s no Al Franken&#8230;..Come to think of it, as a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Senator<\/span>, well, he&#8217;s no Al Franken&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview in New York Times Magazine, Arlen Specter is quoted as saying that he supports Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race. Here is the full context: Q: With your departure from the Republican Party, there are no more Jewish Republicans in the Senate. Do you care about that? A: I sure do. There\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1048,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-humor","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}